Redlib is an alternate frontend to reddit.com.

I can’t find “Ramble” so I’m guessing they might mean Raddle, which is a reddit-like website of its own, similar to Lemmy (without federation)

Like some already said, how long ago is “a few years ago”? Because last year my installation had an annoying issue which is now fixed. And maybe five years back, some (newer or rarer) hardware/devices needed a fix through the terminal, but now work perfectly by default.

I haven’t tried Bazzite, but I’ve heard good things about it and what I know about it so far sounds good. Although @jlow mentioned some alternatives which I wonder if they’re even more suitable since you didn’t mention gaming. Out of habit, I still recommend Mint to former Windows users. But I haven’t needed to input a password for web, graphics tools or office apps, only have to type a password when updating, installing new apps or doing special terminal stuff (which I do by choice!)

On one hand, Mint’s default experience (Cinnamon desktop environment) generally resembles Windows which can make the switch smoother. On the other hand, some other ones fix a lot of defaults Windows chose wrong. Even little things, like moving the taskbar to the top (closer to other options) or to the side (takes up less space), so even if you pick a smaller leap to start with, it’s good to casually look around once you’re comfortable.

It’s also interesting to see how many game creators and tools (material creation) are being made in Godot.

Pingbert’s Snow Ride

I’m a little surprised to see old Tux Racer wasn’t listed as an influence.

Obligatory viewing for the people talking about left-center-right.

But yeah, look, the title uses US mass media terminology, which is thoroughly ridiculous to any political scientist or historian (‘liberal’ instead of progressive, ‘libertarian’ instead of liberal, ‘socialist’ instead of social capitalist, oh my!). And it’s melodramatic. But there’s little point in circlejerking over it and demanding a US general-audience news outlet actually use the language we expect, it’s a written piece with a target audience and it’s not you.

The Mamdami supporters need to understand what tools their enemies have at their disposal, and learn about what challenges democratic socialists like Salvador Allende and the working people faced from capitalist reactionaries (before Allende was shot). Voting in a candidate is the easy part, the citizens of NY must continue to involve themselves in how their society is run and do their part in defending social and economic reform from its reactionary opposition.

Yep. Although…

Is it safe to use the OK hand signal again?

Words and symbols cannot be divorced from context. Like @[email protected] hinted at, putting a date of birth in a username is common and there are so many other meanings for these numbers so it would be ridiculous to jump down someone’s throat for simply using them, or using common gestures. Unless that friend in the story was also saying some reactionary things in their comments, I think it’s silly and careless that someone challenged them on their name.

I been told by some international friends that one of the political flags over in Australia, the Eureka flag, has a similar situation where both trade unions and white nationalists try to claim its legacy, so it’s common to see in both the pro and anti immigration rallies. Context is what makes it either a potential nationalist/racist dogwhistle or a symbol of workers’ rights.

That’s just coincidence, I’ve been using the term for a long time. It’s not new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-fascism

Project 2025 already shutdown huge chunks of the government, I’m surprised this is concerning them.

A happy ending!

To take this a step further, wolf-whistles (neo-Nazi dog-whistles) are often intentionally vague, and spotting them is important in recognizing cryptofascists because they will try and claim plausible deniability, “oh leftists call everyone a nazi” is something open nazis say to downplay themselves to other reactionaries. They know that their beliefs are still unspeakably disgusting to most societies, they tend to disguise it, downplay it and rationalize it.

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Sometimes it’s language and phrases itself, you can often see cryptofascists use the same phrases, euphemisms or odd terms as famous fascist speeches or texts, whether as an intentional subtle allusion or just unwittingly echoing what they’ve read. And that’s where they’ll chuck in terms like “Final solution” in memes.

Other times, it’s more direct coded language and symbols. It’s probably less unknown these days, but some common examples of codes are the sonnenrad ‘Black Sun’ symbol, Nazi-era pseudo-runes (not to be confused with legitimate historical Germanic runes!), the numbers 14 and 88, and more.

I think it’s demand

Personally, and maybe this isn’t the case elsewhere, I’ve heard no-one ask for cars/trucks to become larger. 0 demand.

Haha, there is an interesting poetry in how auto companies pushing larger cars made these pro-cycling laws easier to pass.

That’s not dehumanization.

Nazis are humans. They still need to be removed from society, even if that means killing them like we had to back in the '40s.

Yep. And also for bonus points, learn the basics of asking for help. Even simple things like writing a useful subject for a post, being respectful and how to share useful error codes or logs.

I agree that the rhetorical technique is smart and one we should learn about.

Although I think there’s a false equivalence there within the mainstream US context, because red scare propaganda wholeheartedly declares Venezuela and Cuba to be undemocratic dictatorships, while Bolsonaro and Melei bare resemblance to Trump themselves by being (seen as) the rightward tip of mainstream electoralism, a little extreme but still still capitalist #democracies.

Sanders has infamously praised Castro and Cuba a few times, I wasn’t really paying attention so I don’t know how well this was received by the Democrat audience. I remember it was a headline controversy back in 2020, but it certainly didn’t ruin Sanders.

As for attacking their enemies… one would have to be very careful attacking America to an audience of mainstream Americans. It’s possible to (in bad faith) frame it as criticizing specific governments (Bush, Trump) instead of imperialism, or even possibly framing it as a problem with capitalism, but given their target audience that’s a tough leap to make in one go - remember that these leaders are seen by most as “authoritarian dictators” and it’s not easy to unravel that much propaganda in a couple of speeches. I don’t know how effective it would be to attack those leaders’ domestic enemies or historical predecessors (see yellow Parenti snippet on Cuba).

You’re right, dodging the question would have been much smarter. I haven’t seen the context but I doubt there’s any need for the mayor of New York to declare a position on these two leaders, and Mamdami has already famously dodged the Zionist Regime visit question in the primaries debate.

I am a communist. The liberal electoral system is systemically rigged towards the bourgeoisie and it would be ridiculous to approach it in good faith.

If your middle of the road beliefs were correct, he wouldn’t have won the primary.

What do you mean? Mamdami’s primary platform didn’t depart from capitalism as far as I saw. Furthermore, the primary has a different voting audience and calls for different tactics (even if using the same strategy) to improve chances of winning that popularity contest.

Even if Mamdami didn’t believe that, it would still be the smart thing to say. Elections are a popularity competition, there’s no prize for saying the truth; just ask a climate scientist. The point is to change things.

It’s important to get out of the liberalist mindset of thinking electoralism (here and now) should be about honestly stating every policy and correct position. We don’t live in a marketplace of ideas where simply being correct is worth anything. If the bulk of the population isn’t on board with socialism, then an election seat is either useful for milquetoast mild reform or for propaganda platforming (e.g. Sanders making “socialism” a more approachable idea despite Sanders clearly contradicting socialism in many other statements).

There’s no way those commanders aren’t shaking their heads at this stooge. Describing defense as leading to “overuse, overreach, and mission creep”? How did this person study politics, rise up ranks to become a major and still be this ignorant of such simple concepts? I can understand dumb, but ignorant too?

“You kill people and break things for a living.”

I wonder how much of the audience were insulted by that. I think even many of the grunts would find that condescending and dehumanizing.

And it’s important to emphasize when war crimes are official state policy. There’s no “bad apples” excuse here, no-one can deflect this onto the soldiers. They’re comfortable enough that they’re being honest.